Aug 10th, 2010
6:30 pm
Wil-Mar Center
953 Jenifer St
Economics
Oct
1
Save Our Services Rally
Oct
1
Past - Thursday, October 01 2009 at 5 pm
WI State Capitol
MAPC, AFSCME locals 171 and 68
barn: 442-8822
The WI state budget passed in July slashes aid to schools, local governments, and state agencies. There is an alternative. Rescind the tax cuts on corporations and wealthy people. Close the loopholes that let large, profitable companies pay no state income tax. Join us and let the WI legislators know that we, the people, refuse to continue to be abused by the unfair disbursement of our tax money! |
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Dec
1
Fair Trade Fair
Dec
1
Past - Saturday, December 01 2007
MATC downtown,
Community Action on Latin America
Do all your holiday shopping at the 11th Annual Fair Trade Holiday Festival - "Fair Trade Education & Gifts Made by Real People Making Real Wages." Fairly-traded goods available from around 50 local groups. Products in the past included a wide variety of gifts of all types, of course fairly-traded coffee tea and chocolate, olive oil, holiday cards, textiles, pottery, and music. MAPC will have a table selling cards and peace calendars. |
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Sep
25
Stop The War Machine- Turn Off the Tap
Sep
25
Past - Tuesday, September 25 2007 from 6 to 9 pm
MATC-Downtown Campus, 211 N. Carroll St., Madison
Truth and Alternatives to Militarism in Education (TAME), Madison Area Peace Coalition, Iraq Vets Against the War - Madison
Vicki at (608) 807-4406, or info@tamewisconsin.org
An Anti-War Counter-Recruitment Forum Excerpts from the documentary film "Ground Truth" (showing recreitment and boot camp experiences) will be screened at 6:00 pm. The actual forum speakers will begin at 6:30 pm. Features: Army veteran Aimee Allison and activist editor David Solnit, authors of Army of None: Strategies to Counter Military Recruitment, End War and Build a Better World; and Navy veteran Todd Dennis, Wisconsin coordinator of Iraq Veterans Against the War. The event is free and open to the public. With enlistments down and no end in sight to the illegal U.S. occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan, the military has stepped up its recruitment efforts, especially among lower income youth and people of color. Recruiters often offer flase promises of opportunity while minimizing the risks to those who enlist. Concrete community-based efforts to counteract this are growing around the country. Speakers and Allison's book Army of None, is a recently released hands-on guide to stem the flow of young bodies as fuel for the war machine. This forum is for all hose looking for a meaningful way to get involved to oppose U.S. illegal wars, including parents, educators, teachers and especially students. In addition to the Forum on Tuesday, Sept. 25th, there will be a free Direct Action Workshop with Aimee Allison & David Solnit on Wednesday, Sept. 26th, in the cafeteria of MATC downtown, 211 N. Carroll St. (the same building where the forum will take place on Tuesday). These events, organized by MAPC and TAME, are also endorsed by the Iraq Veterans Against theWar-Madison, the Campus Anti-War Network, and the Veterans for Peace Clarence Kailin Branch - Madison |
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Economics | WI | Dane County | Madison
Submitted by MAPCoffice on Thu, 09/13/2007 - 8:27pm.
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Sep
4
Labor Fest Madison
Sep
4
Past - Monday, September 04 2006 from noon to 5:30 pm
Labor Temple grounds, 1602 S. Park St.
South Central Federation of Labor
This year’s LaborFest
features two of Madison’s three best bands (according to ratings by Madison
Magazine), along with lots of attractions for kids and an extensive menu of good
food, beer and soft drinks which will be served throughout the event.
This year there will be a special Welcome and Salute
to the New Immigrant Movement at 1:45 p.m. A collection will also
be taken up for the families of immigrant workers jailed following an ICE/INS raid in
Whitewater,
August 8.
Musical entertainment begins at 12:30 p.m. with the rousing
rhythm and blues of LaborFest regulars, the Andy Linderman–Mel Ford
Band. At 2:30 p.m. Madison’s Phat
Phunktion takes the stage with some of the best funk and jazz
sounds in the Midwest. Special events for kids will include balloons, face painting, and piñata and performances by Madison magician Scott the Great at 1 and 3 p.m. Menu items include the ever fabulous Italian sausages, corn on the cob, and Louisiana-style rice and beans, along with hot dogs, soda and beer. There are rumors that AFL-CIO's John Sweeney will address the group, and Governor Doyle will pay a visit around 3pm. Also see: National Day of Action for Legalization and a Moratorium on Deportation |
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Sep
2
"Move Forward Not Out"
Sep
2
Past - Saturday, September 02 2006 from noon to 2 pm
Boys and Girls Club, 4619 Jenewein Drive, Madison.
Madison ACORN, Allied Dunn's Marsh Neighborhood Association
ACORN Madison : 277-0655; Allied Dunn's Marsh Neighborhood Association: 274-941; MJohnson7@wisc.edu
"Move Forward Not Out" Rally and March for Self Determination in Allied Drive Neighborhood Recently, Mayor Cieslwwicz announced plans to buy nine apartment buildings on Allied Dr.and redevelop them. Madison ACORN, ALlied Dunn's Marsh Neighborhood Assoc. and a colation of social justice groups are organizing a rally to express the community's demands for low-income housing, jobs and safety as the neighborhood prepares for redevelopment. The Sept. 2 rally, occurring one week prior to the community design meeting, is intended to empower Allied Dr. residents and inspire the city to take creation of low-income housing there seriously. Residents of the area have asked for members of the Madison community to march with them in solidarity on Sept. 2nd and show their support for self-determination for the neighborhood. - Matt Johnson, 256-3402 MJohnson7@wisc.edu. Note: Madison Area Peace Coalition endorsed this event at its last general meeting. |
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Economics | March | Other | Rally | WI | Dane County | Madison
Submitted by MAPCoffice on Fri, 08/18/2006 - 6:42pm.
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Apr
18
War Profiteering Talk by Jeffrey St. Clair
Apr
18
Past - Tuesday, April 18 2006 at 7 pm
UW Humanities Building, Room 1111
International Socialist Review and Haymarket Books
For more information, please email spieper@wisc.edu or call 294-5961.
Hear author and journalist: Jeffery St. Clair, co-editor of CounterPunch and author of Grand Theft Pentagon: Takes of Corruption and Profiteering in the War on Terror, will be in Madison as part of a national book tour. Jeffery
St. Clair is an award-winning investigative journalist, co-editor of
political newsletter CounterPunch and author on nine books, including Whiteout: the CIA, Drugs and the Press, Been Brown So Long It Looked Like Green to Me: the Politics of Nature and Imperial Crusades: Iraq, Afghanistan and Yugoslavia. From
the F-22 fighter jet and B-2 bomber to the Stryker tank and Star Wars,
Grand Theft Pentagon chronicles how the Pentagon shells out billions to
politically wired arms contractors for weapons that don't work for use
against an enemy that no longer exists. St. Clair shows how many of
the biggest arms contracts were literally inside jobs, negotiated by
Pentagon generals who later went to work for the very same corporations
that were awarded the contracts. Sponsored by International Socialist Review and Haymarket Books |
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Apr
10
Immigrant Rights Rally
Apr
10
Past - Monday, April 10 2006 from 10:30 am to 1 pm
Brittingham Park (West Washington Avenue & Park Street), march to Capitol Square
The Madison mobilization for immigrant rights “April 10 Organizing Committee” includes many community, religious, civil, human and immigrant rights’ groups, labor unions, businesses and individuals.
Alex Gillis, 608-345-9544(cell); 608-467-0475 (hotline); alex@vocesdelafrontera.net, Geovani González, 608-575-5606; mexkalito_21@yahoo.com, Salvador Carranza, 608-438-9502 (cell); salcandresen@yahoo.com
A National Day of Action. A Day Without Latinos. Rally for Immigrant Rights!
Recognizing that the USA is a nation of immigrants, join the Madison mobilization for immigrant rights “April 10 Organizing Committee”* in a massive rally to: * Stop the anti-immigrant House Resolution 4437 (H.R. 4437) * Stop Wisconsin Senate Bill 567 (SB567) * Protest the passage of Wisconsin Assembly Bill 69 (AB69) * Stop all attacks against immigrants * Stop criminalization of immigrant communities We demand comprehensive immigration reform, including: * A path to citizenship, not a temporary guest worker program * Family reunification measures * Worker protections * Full rights for all immigrants! Converge at Brittingham Park at 10:30 a.m. (West Washington Avenue & Park Street). March to State Capitol Program: 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. *The Madison mobilization for immigrant rights “April 10 Organizing Committee” is comprised of many community, religious, civil, human and immigrant rights’ groups, labor unions, businesses and individuals. Sponsoring organizations: LUChA, Voces de la Frontera, La Movida 1480AM, WORT Spanish Programs, etc… |
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Civil Liberties | Economics | Education | March | Politics | Racial Justice | Rally | WI | Dane County | Madison
Submitted by barbara on Wed, 04/05/2006 - 9:28pm.
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